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Originaltitel: The Journey of August King

1995
16
1 Std. 31 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

1094

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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August ist Witwer und befindet sich auf dem Heimweg, nachdem er seine selbstgemachten Produkte verkauft und die Vorräte und Waren gekauft hat, die er für das kommende Jahr benötigt. Auf sein... Alles lesenAugust ist Witwer und befindet sich auf dem Heimweg, nachdem er seine selbstgemachten Produkte verkauft und die Vorräte und Waren gekauft hat, die er für das kommende Jahr benötigt. Auf seiner Reise trifft er auf einen entlaufenen Sklavin.August ist Witwer und befindet sich auf dem Heimweg, nachdem er seine selbstgemachten Produkte verkauft und die Vorräte und Waren gekauft hat, die er für das kommende Jahr benötigt. Auf seiner Reise trifft er auf einen entlaufenen Sklavin.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

1094

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Annalees
(as Thandie Newton)

Larry Drake

Olaf Singletary

Sam Waterston

Mooney Wright

Sarah-Jane Wylde

Ida Wright

Eric Mabius

Hal Wright

Muse Watson

Zimmer

John Doman

Bolton

Andy Stahl

Harrison
(as Andrew Stahl)

Danny Nelson

Felix

Collin Wilcox Paxton

Mina

Dean Rader-Duval

Gabriel
(as Dean Rader Duvall)

Billy Ray Reynolds

Marlus Harding

Sims
(as Marlus C. Harding)

Lisa Roberts Gillan

Meg
(as Lisa Roberts)

John Burnett Hall

Travis

Roy Bush Laughter

A. Duncan Shirley III

Porter

Benutzerrezensionen20

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long-ford

worthy but dull and slow moving

The Journey of August King is certainly a worthy film and probably should be shown in classrooms when dealing with topics like slavery. However, entertainment value is limited thanks to sluggish pace and lack of conflict in the storyline. Thandie Newton is good as the escaped slave though her behavior and speech feels occasionally anachronistic. Jason Patric is all right. The growing relationship between these two feels real but lacks spark. The production values are fine but you may still feel that you are watching a made-for-TV production.

Overall 6/10

KatharineFanatic

Breathtaking

Of the handful of comments for this extraordinary film, most of them have the story wrong. The tale is not about a man "falling in love with his dead wife's slave." August King becomes involved in helping a young negro girl escape from her cruel owner in the backwoods of South Carolina in the early eighteen hundreds. The love is more sacrificial than sexual, and the film teaches excellent lessons about duty, honor, compassion, responsibility, and making choices. August finds himself through helping Annalees.

It's beautifully filmed and very stirring, with the kind of conclusion that makes many other films seem incomplete and shallow. This is an excellent film. It's also very family-friendly aside from some thematic elements (a slave is cleaved in half, animals are slaughtered, and so forth). I purchased it on a whim and never regretted the twenty bucks I spent. Everyone should see this at least once.

5ed_two_o_nine

Great themes do not always equate to great films.

Films with noble themes such as this one sometimes find themselves shielded from criticism. However if you look at this film just as another movie what we have here is actually not that great a movie dealing with huge themes. The story of August Hill who finds redemption in the noble sacrifice of his way off life to aid the escape of an escaped slave is noble but I do not feel Jason Patrick lends the lead character enough weight to portray the guilt he is supposed to be carrying. Again Thandie Newton as the slave girl Analeese is okay, but the character is very two dimensional. There is little to no support story or characters and in the end this feels like a bog standard television movie that is only lifted out of the doldrums by a decent conclusion. I for one will not be watching this again.

8leecain

Mountains of Beauty

Wow, If you love history, this is as real as it gets. What a journey, I felt like I was right there with them. I first saw this movie on HBO. I watched several times. What sacrifices that had to be. I promise you will enjoy.

One of the best authors of North Carolina knew to come back home. Our mountains are filled with such wonderful stories of pioneers struggling to fit in with neighbors, families mingling beliefs and faith. Our forefathers have been in Buncombe county since Revolution days. With little access to this area, it has until recently been untouched with modernization. Our people were simple but lived as Kings. Jason Patric was wonderful in this movie. I am a fan.

8basak-tosun

The film has a strong moral message to give to the viewer.

The film has a strong moral message to give to the viewer. It raises a question on the mind: is it enough to be a person working for the well-being of himself and family in a honest way in order to be considered to be a good, honorable man? The answer is no. It is not acceptable to condone the cruelty or injustice of others, a conscientious man should fight against them.

At the very beginning of the film, there is a scene where a man kills his wounded dog. August King would like to stop him, but he did nothing, just turned back go his own way....At the end of the film he tells that he won't be the man he was used to be...i think he meant such situations...During his journey, August King turned to be a man who would not hesitate to break the rules to do whatever he thinks it is right to do.

In sum, the film is something much more than a love story and i very much liked it.

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When Annalees (Thandiwe Newton) sees Sims hanging upside down, August calls her Thandie.

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[first lines]
Harry (Son): [running to injured dog] Gracie!
Ben: One of my bravest. Scars from 14 battles, if a one.
August King: I see 'em.
Ben: Father was a huntin' hound. Mother a German dog, Tan.
August King: Might live, you doctor it.
Ben: Eh, never get the courage back.
[reloading his rifle]
Ben: I know dogs.
August King: [feeds the dog some bread]
Ben: He's mangled her innards. Can't digest bread.
August King: Can chew it any way.
Boy: Come away, Rebekah. They're gonna have to send him up to the fields.
Little Girl: Why they have to do that?
Boy: 'Cause he can't walk anymore.
Narrator: In the North Carolina mountains, the early settlers traveled the roads taking their stock down to the market, and trekking back up again with supplies, and new stock for the months ahead. Among them was a man named August King. He had been waiting his turn most of his life, never doing anything much different from one day to the next. He was alone on his journey, walking at his own gate, slow and steady, making his fate home.